Word: wrest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...come too late, but 250 middle-class homeowners stay dutifully in their hard little folding chairs. They are at the Bell Park Jewish Center to inspect mayoral candidates. Congressman Ed Koch leads off-witty, whimsical, wise-and he suggests that Abzug is a demagogue for promising that she would wrest more federal help for the beleaguered city. He gets polite applause...
...narrow defeat came as a bitter pill to swallow for the linksters who were favorites to wrest the Greater Boston crown from the defending Eagles, having won the tournament for 15 straight years prior to last season. Individual Scoring Harvard B.C. Jim Dales 82 74 156 Dave Magdalenski 75 75 150 Dave Paxton 75 82 157 John McCann 73 80 153 Alex Vik 83 75 158 Danny Curtis 81 76 157 Spence Fitzgibbons 77 82 159 Joe McBournie 86 80 166 George Arnold 84 83 167 Jack Callahan 83 84 167 Total 798 Total...
...Daoud claims to have founded the group's intelligence department, called El Rasd (the Observation), in 1968; he was deeply involved in Fatah preparations to wrest control of Jordan from King Hussein in September 1970. Abu Daoud was shot in the leg in one of the early battles of that Black September and spent the rest of the war recuperating in Damascus. After his recovery, he was sent on missions to Europe, North Korea and China to seek support for the Palestinian cause...
They have allowed the state to wrest children out of the parents' control through forced bussing; they have not interfered with the abortion mills sprouting up coast to coast; nor, as another example, have they protested the recruiting by homosexual organizations at colleges and high schools. They are either undisturbed by such activity because "those people have just as much right to their lifestyle as we do," or they don't want to cause controversy in the community...
...votes that enabled him to blank Ford in the Texas primary, and to his support elsewhere by the now leaderless Wallace following. By carrying California and Texas, in both of whose primaries he swamped Ford, and picking off some Southern states he has demonstrated that no other Republican could wrest from Carter, Reagan insists the Republicans would have a better chance to win with him as the candidate...